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Agencies by country

Afghanistan

* Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati (KHAD) (1980-1992) *

National Directorate of Security The National Directorate of Security (NDS; ps, د ملي امنیت لوی ریاست; prs, ریاست عمومی امنیت ملی) was the national intelligence and security service of Afghanistan. The headquarters of the NDS was in Kabul, ...

(NDS) (2002-2021)

Albania

* Drejtorija e Sigurimit të Shtetit (Sigurimi) (Directorate of State Security) (1944-1991)

Algeria

* Direction des Services de Sécurité (1990-2016)

Argentina

Batallón de Inteligencia 601 The Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (Spanish for "601 Intelligence Battalion") was a special military intelligence service of the Argentine Army whose structure was set up in the late 1970s, active in the Dirty War and Operation Condor, and disband ...

(601 Intelligence Battalion) (late 1970's-2000) * Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Center) *

Coordinación de Informaciones de Estado Coordinación de Informaciones de Estado (''State Intelligence Coordination'', CIDE) was the first Argentine civilian intelligence agency created in 1946 by Juan Perón, who was the ''de facto'' Argentine vice president at the time. It is the pred ...

(CIDE) (State Information Coordination) *

División de Informaciones División de Informaciones is a defunct Argentine intelligence agency created by Juan Perón to work within the National Presidential Office. Its director was Rodolfo Freude. It collaborated in the smuggling of Nazi war criminals to Argentina i ...

(Information Division) * Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado (SIDE) (Secretariat of State Information)

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Evidenzbureau The k.u.k. Evidenzbureau (modernized spelling ''Evidenzbüro'') was the directorate of military intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Foundation Founded in 1850 as the first permanent military inte ...

(1850-1918)

Brazil

* Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) (National Information Service) (1964-1990) * Subsecretaria de Inteligência (SSI) (Sub-Secretariat of Intelligence) (1990-1995)

Bulgaria

* Durzhavna Sigurnost (DS)

Canada

RCMP Security Service The RCMP Security Service (french: Service de sécurité de la GRC) was a branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) that had responsibility for domestic intelligence and security in Canada. It was replaced by the Canadian Security Intellig ...

(1950-1984)

Chile

Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional ( en, National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the secret police of Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The DINA has been referred to as "Pinochet's Gestapo". Established in November ...

(DINA) (National Directorate of Intelligence) (1973-1977) *Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) (National Intelligence Center)

China / Taiwan

* Embroidered Uniform Guard (1368-1645) *

Eastern Depot Eastern Depot or Eastern Bureau () was a Ming dynasty spy and secret police agency run by eunuchs. It was created by the Yongle Emperor. History After the Yongle Emperor usurped the throne in 1402 from his nephew, the Jianwen Emperor, he attem ...

(1420-1644) *

Bureau of Investigation and Statistics The National Bureau of Investigation and Statistics (Military Commission), (NBIS or BIS) (), commonly known as Juntong (), was the military intelligence agency of the Republic of China before 1946. It was devoted to intelligence gathering and co ...

(1927-1946) * National Committee of Investigations and Statistics (1935-1949) *

Taiwan Garrison Command The Taiwan Garrison Command () was a secret police/national security body which existed under the Republic of China Armed Forces on Taiwan. The agency was established at the end of World War II, and operated throughout the Cold War. It was d ...

Colombia

Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad The Administrative Department of Security ( es, Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, DAS) was the security service agency of Colombia, which was also responsible for border and immigration services. It was dissolved on 31 October 2011 as pa ...

(DAS) (Administrative Department of Security) (1960-2011)

Czechoslovakia

* Federal Directorate of Intelligence Services (FSZS) * Hlavni Sprava Rozvedky (HSR) * Státní Bezpečnost (StB)

Finland

* Ministry of Interior **

Etsivä keskuspoliisi The State Police (Valpo) ( fi, Valtiollinen poliisi) is the predecessor of the Finnish Security Intelligence Service. History Etsivä keskuspoliisi Valtiollinen poliisi has its roots in Osasto III ("Section III") which was formed in summer 1 ...

(EK, 1919–1938) **

Valtiollinen poliisi The State Police (Valpo) ( fi, Valtiollinen poliisi) is the predecessor of the Finnish Security Intelligence Service. History Etsivä keskuspoliisi Valtiollinen poliisi has its roots in Osasto III ("Section III") which was formed in summer 1 ...

(Valpo I, 1939–1944) ** Red Valpo (Valpo II, 1944–1948) *

Finnish Defence Forces The Finnish Defence Forces ( fi, Puolustusvoimat, sv, Försvarsmakten) are the military of Finland. The Finnish Defence Forces consist of the Finnish Army, the Finnish Navy and the Finnish Air Force. In wartime the Finnish Border Guard (whic ...

** Intelligence Research Establishment (VKoeL, 1960–2014) – ''Viestikoelaitos / Signalprovanstalten'' *Ministry of Defence **

Military Intelligence Service The Military Intelligence Service ( ja, アメリカ陸軍情報部, ''America Rikugun Jōhōbu'') was a World War II U.S. military unit consisting of two branches, the Japanese American unit (described here) and the German-Austrian unit based ...

(PVTK, 2007–2014) – ''Pääesikunnan tiedusteluosasto''

France

Deuxième Bureau The Deuxième Bureau de l'État-major général ("Second Bureau of the General Staff") was France's external military intelligence agency from 1871 to 1940. It was dissolved together with the Third Republic upon the armistice with Germany. Howeve ...

(1871–1940) * Renseignements Généraux (RG) (1937–2008) *

Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage Service may refer to: Activities * Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a p ...

(SDECE) (1944–1982) *

Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire The Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST; en, Directorate of Territorial Surveillance) was a directorate of the French National Police operating as a domestic intelligence agency. It was responsible for counterespionage, counterterro ...

(DST) (1944–2008)

Federal Republic of Germany

* Gehlen Organization ("The Org", "Zipper") (1946-1956) *Office/Center for Intelligence of the Federal Armed Forces (ANBw/ZNBw)

German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

* Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS or Stasi) ( Ministry for State Security) (1950-1990) ** Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) (1955-1990) * Military Reconnaissance of the

National People's Army The National People's Army (german: Nationale Volksarmee, ; NVA ) were the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1956 to 1990. The NVA was organized into four branches: the (Ground Forces), the (Navy), the (Air Force) a ...

(Militärische Aufklärung der Nationalen Volksarmee) (1956-1990)

German Reich

* Abwehr (1920-1945) * Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost (Department Foreign Armies East) *

Geheime Staatspolizei The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organi ...

(Gestapo) (Secret State Police) (1933-1945) * Geheime Feldpolizei (GFP) (Secret Field Police) (1939-1945) *

Sicherheitsdienst ' (, ''Security Service''), full title ' (Security Service of the '' Reichsführer-SS''), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Established in 1931, the SD was the first Nazi intelligence organization ...

(SD) (Security Service) (1931-1945) * B-Dienst (Observation Service) (1918-1945) * Naval Intelligence Service, also called

Nachrichten-Abteilung The ''Nachrichten-Abteilung'', also known as N, was the naval intelligence department of the German Imperial Admiralty Staff or ''Admiralstab'' between 1901–1919. It focused its efforts on France, the United States and above all the United Kingd ...

(1899-1919) * Abteilung III b (Department III b) (1889-1918) *

Prussian Secret Police The Prussian Secret Police (german: Preußische Geheimpolizei) was the secret police agency of the German state of Prussia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1851 the Police Union of German States was set up by the police forces of Aust ...

(1851-1933)

Egypt

* State Security Investigations Service (SSIS) (1913-2011)

Hong Kong

* Special Branch (1930-1995)

Hungary

* Államvedélmi Osztály (ÁVO) (State Protection Department) * Államvédelmi Hatóság (ÁVH) (State Protection Authority) (1945-1956)

Israel

* ha-Lishka le-Kishrei Mada (Lekem or Lakam) (Bureau of Scientific Relations) (1957-1986)

Italy

* Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo (

OVRA The OVRA, whose most probable name was Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism ( it, Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo), was the secret police of the Kingdom of Italy, founded in 1927 under the ...

) (1927-1945)

Indonesia

* Komando Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban (Kopkamtib) (1965-1988) * Badan Koordinasi Stabilitas Nasional (Bakorstanas) (1988-2000)

Iran

* Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar (SAVAK) (National Organization for Intelligence and Security) (1957-1979)

Iraq

* Al-Amn al-‘Amm (Directorate of General Security) (1922-2003) * Al-Amn al-Khas (Special Security Organization) (1983-2003) * Al-Istikhabarat al-'Askariyya (Directorate of General Military Intelligence) (1932-2003) * Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma (Iraqi Intelligence Service) (1973-2003)

Ireland

* Free State Army Intelligence Department ("Oriel House") (1921-1923) *

Criminal Investigation Department The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of a police force to which most plainclothes detectives belong in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth nations. A force's CID is distinct from its Special Branch (though officers of b ...

(CID) (1921-1923) * Citizens' Defence Force

Japan

Kempeitai The , also known as Kempeitai, was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881 to 1945 that also served as a secret police force. In addition, in Japanese-occupied territories, the Kenpeitai arrested or killed those suspecte ...

(1881-1945) * Tokeitai * Tokkō (1911-1945)

Libya

Jamahiriya el-Mukhabarat Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya ( ar, مخابرات الجماهيرية) (Intelligence of the Jamahiriya) was the national intelligence service of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi. During the Libyan Civil War, agency director Abuzed Omar Dorda was cap ...

Malaysia

* Malayan Security Service (1939-1948)

Manchukuo

* Hoankyoku (1937-1945)

Netherlands

* Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) (Interior Security Service) (1947-2002) * Inlichtingendienst Buitenland (IDB) (Foreign Intelligence Service) (1946–1994)

Ottoman Empire

* Teşkîlât-ı Mahsûsa (1913-1918)

Panama

* Policia Secreta Nacional (PSN) (La Secreta) (1909–60s first government secret agency) * Guardia Silenciosa Panameñista (GUSIPA) (1930–40s short-lived secret service) * 1.Estado Mayor Personal/Sec."E" Asuntos de Seguridad Nacional of PFD General Command * Sub Jefatura de Inspectoria General of PFD General State Major Chieftain * Comando General de la Comision de Defensa y Seguridad (COGECODESE) (security, defense and intelligence PNG/PFD main entity) * Estado Mayor General ('Inteligencia') (G-2) (1950–80s PNG/PDFs military intelligence) * Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DENI) (1960–1989)

Philippines

* Philippine Constabulary - Office of Special Investigations (PC-OSI) (1901-1991) * Philippine Constabulary - National Constabulary Investigations Service (PC-NCIS) (1901-1936) *

National Intelligence and Security Authority The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) is the primary intelligence gathering and analysis arm of the Government of the Philippines in charge of carrying out overt, covert, and clandestine intelligence activities. The NICA cooper ...

(NISA) (1972-1987) * Civil Intelligence and Security Agency (CISA) (1972-1987)

Poland

* Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego (1918–1939) ** Biuro Szyfrów (Cypher Bureau) ** Estezet (STZ) ** Polish Agency of Trade Information (PAIH) * Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego (1945–1954) * Komitet do spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego (1954–1956) * Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych (MSW) (1954–1990) **Departament I MSW **Departament II MSW ** Służba Bezpieczeństwa MSW (SB-MSW) (1956–1990) *

Urząd Ochrony Państwa The Office of State Protection ( Polish: ''Urząd Ochrony Państwa'' (, UOP)Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego ''Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego'' (''GZI WP'' - "Main Directorate of Information of the Polish Army"), was a name of a first military Police and counter-espionage organ of the Polish People's Army in communist Poland during and aft ...

(1944–1957) * Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna (WSW) (1957–1990) * Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego LWP (1945–1951) * Zarząd II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego (1951–1990)

Portugal

PIDE The International and State Defense Police ( pt, Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado; PIDE) was a Portuguese security agency that existed during the '' Estado Novo'' regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Formally, the main roles of th ...

(1933-1969)

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

* Federal Intelligence and Security Bureau

Roman Empire

Agentes in rebus The ''agentes in rebus'' ( grc, ἀγγελιαφόροι, angeliaphóroi, messengers, or , ''magistrianoí'', ' magister's men'.) were the late Roman imperial courier service and general agents of the central government from the 4th to the 7th c ...

(4th-7th century) *

Areani The areani or arcani were a force of the Roman Empire, based in Roman Britain during the later part of the Roman occupation of the island. They had played some part in the campaign of Constans in Britain in 343; later they helped to instigate the G ...

* Bureau of Barbarians *

Frumentarii The ''Frumentarii'' were an ancient Roman military organization used as an intelligence agency. They began their history as a courier service and developed into an imperial spying agency. Their organization would also carry out assassinations. ...

Praetorian Guard The Praetorian Guard (Latin: ''cohortēs praetōriae'') was a unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents for the Roman emperors. During the Roman Republic, the Praetorian Guard were an escort fo ...

(27 BC-312 AD)

Romania

* Secția a-II-a (Section II) (1859–1908) *

Siguranța Statului Siguranța was the generic name for the successive secret police services in the Kingdom of Romania. The official title of the organization changed throughout its history, with names including Directorate of the Police and General Safety ( ro, Di ...

(''Siguranța'') (State Security) (1908–1940) * Serviciul Special de Informații (Special Intelligence Service) (1940–1944) * Serviciul de Informații (Intelligence Service) (1944–1948) * Departamentul Securității Statului (''Securitate'') (Department of State Security) (1948–1991)

Russia

* Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Okhrana or ''slang'' Okhranka) (Security Section) (1866–1917) *

Special Corps of Gendarmes The Separate Corps of Gendarmes (russian: Отдельный корпус жандармов) was the uniformed security police of the Imperial Russian Army in the Russian Empire during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its main responsibilitie ...

(1836–1917) *

KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

(1934-1946)

Serbia

* Service for Research and Documentation (SID) (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1949-2007)

Sri Lanka

* Special Branch (1966-1970)

Singapore

* Special Branch

Somalia

* National Security Service (NSS) (1970-1990)

South Africa

* Bureau of State Security (BOSS) (1969-1980)

Soviet Union

* Cheka (1917–1922) (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission) * Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (GPU) (1922–1923) (State Political Directorate) * Obyedinennoye Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (OGPU) (1923–1934) (Joint State Political Directorate) * Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennih Del (NKVD) (1934–1946) (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) * Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del (MVD) (1946–1954) (Ministry for Internal Affairs) * Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti (MGB) (1943–1953) (Ministry for State Security) * Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (KGB) (1954–1991) (Committee for State Security)

Spain

Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa The Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa ( en, Superior Center of Defense Information; CESID) was the Spanish intelligence agency before the current Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) took over as its successor in 2002. History Follo ...

(CESID) (Main Defence Information Centre) (1977-2002) *Political-Social Brigade (BPS/BSI) (1941-1978)

Sweden

* IB ("Informationsbyrån")

Turkey

* Millî Emniyet Hizmeti Riyâseti (M.E.H./MAH, between 1926 and 1965)

Uganda

* State Research Bureau

Ukraine

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United Kingdom

MI1 MI1 or British ''Military Intelligence, Section 1'' was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was set up during World War I. It contained "C&C", which was responsible for code breaking. I ...

* MI2 * MI3 * MI4 *

MI7 MI7 was a branch of the British War Office’s Directorate of Military Intelligence with responsibilities for press liaison and propaganda. The branch was originally established in the First World War and disbanded after the signing of the Ar ...

* MI8 * MI9 *

MI10 MI10, or Military Intelligence, section 10, was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was responsible for weapons and technical analysis during World War II World War II or ...

* MI11 * MI12 *

MI14 MI14, or British Military Intelligence, Section 14 was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence. It was an intelligence agency of the War Office, which specialised in intelligence about Germany. Originally part of MI3, d ...

MI15 MI15, the British Military Intelligence Section 15 (now defunct), was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was set up in 1942 to handle aerial photography (compare with MI4). In 1943 ...

* MI16 *

MI17 MI17, or Military Intelligence, section 17, was the secretariat to the other departments Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Depa ...

* MI19 * Naval Intelligence Division (NID) *

Special Operations Executive The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British World War II organisation. It was officially formed on 22 July 1940 under Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton, from the amalgamation of three existing secret organisations. Its pu ...

(SOE)

United States

* Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency (1948-2014) * Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (1942-1945) * The Pond (1942-1955)

North Vietnam

* Central Research Agency

South Vietnam

* Central Intelligence Office (1961-1975) * Military Security Directorate * Strategic Technical Directorate * Research and Documentation Office *

Intelligence Directorate Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can ...

Vietnam

**Tổng cục An ninh (Tổng cục I) (General Department of Security or First General Department) **Tổng cục Tình báo Công an (Tổng cục V, or TC V) (General Department of Public Security Intelligence or Fifth General Department)

Yugoslavia

UDBA The State Security Service ( hr, Služba državne sigurnosti, sr, Служба државне безбедности; mk, Служба за државна безбедност; sl, Služba državne varnosti), also known by its original name ...

(1946-1991) *

KOS Kos or Cos (; el, Κως ) is a Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese by area, after Rhodes and Karpathos; it has a population of 36,986 (2021 census), ...

(''Kontraobaveštajna služba''), Counterintelligence Service (General staff) (1946-1992)

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